The F35 can't fly near lightning?

[Mohawk]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericte...-still-cant-fly-within-25-miles-of-lightning/

 

[Mohawk]

What's your take on this Perry?

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

That's not the first issue that "Over Complicated" Next Generation "Whistling Shit Can" has had. I was at Eglin doing Shake N Bake on our ground control stations and related unmanned aircraft systems and every time I turned around they were grounding them things. They should have stayed with the F-14. It will take them 15 years to get the bugs ironed out and at 80 million a piece, it's a POS.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

They have the Lightening restriction, Super Sonic time in flight restrictions (erode a F-35's stealth coating ), Weight restrictions for the pilots ( restrict pilots weighing less than 136 pounds ), and many more, which, after 800 birds have already been built and by now, all that shit should have been fixed.

What a junk aircraft.

 

[Mohawk]

Apparently Canada just broke the piggy bank for 88 planes that can't fly in bad weather?

WTF ?

 

[Mohawk]

How bout some of thease beauty's !

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Apparently Canada just broke the piggy bank for 88 planes that can't fly in bad weather?

WTF ?

Well, global warming will fix that.

We humped a lot of countries passing this off on them. But, there are a bunch of F15 and F16's laying around the desert.

 

[Mohawk]

Who remembers the CF 105 Arrow ....

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Here is what our SMART allies do.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/asia/japan-uk-italy-new-fighter-plane-deal-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

 

[Mohawk]

I just read that ......

Canada is still flying F18's we bought in the 70's....

 

[J!m]

We're still overhauling blades for the F100-229, which is used in the F15 and F16...

Another core came in today from Belgium as a matter of fact.

 

[Mohawk]

Are you Pratt & Whitney J!m ?

 

[Lazarus Short]

I've read so many www articles about the F-35 "Turkey" that for a while I thought that was it's name...

 

[J!m]

I’m working for a third party that (I believe) is sole source for overhaul of the -229 HPC blades. We are for sure the sole source for the main shaft coupling overhaul.

 

[Mohawk]

All this sounds so familiar....

My son works for PWC , Pratt & Whitney Canada.....

Cool stuff......

 

[J!m]

I’ve worked on several Pratt Canada parts over the years. Nothing lately.